Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-6769189-20191202105007/@comment-7515480-20191203234829

DMC4 and 5 are generally stories about "the kid with powers that needs to grow up and accept his legacy". I didn't say there were completely identical to DMC3, but it's been there, done that. Dante's story in DMC5 only got bad in the end when his and Vergil's rivalry of different ideologies was retconned as some one-dimensional brotherly fight fest that was all done for Nero's sake, which we talked about arleady.

Capcom's "Dante fatigue" is on them, not on the character. How can Kratos still be the main character of God of War after he killed the entire Greek god pantheon, but Dante can't get another game just because he defeated the demon king 5 games ago. There are so many other ways to present different challenges for him where his power levels are of no relevance and he could further develop as a character.

For instance what if demons suddenly got a little smarter and decied that if they can't hurt Dante physically, they can try to hurt him emotionally instead. After all demons are supposed to torment people, not only serve as monsters, so maybe they could come up with something to trick Dante or lie to him in some way that his father's legacy isn't what he thought it was, or just do anything to make him doubt his mission in general. Demons know Dante loves his family so they could find a way to try to use that against him that goes beyoned just Mundus brainwashing his brother and sending him after him. Or maybe they could have another prequel-type game that actually shows us more about Dante and Vergil's relationship when they were younger, or how did they actually grew apart beyond just the death of their mother. Maybe they could show Dante at some point actually tried to talk Vergil out of his quest for power instead of just fighting him on principle as DMC5 tsuggested only so Nero could have his "big" moment in the end. There's no reason to believe that more stories can't be done with Dante. It only boils down to lack of imagination on Capcom's part and in my view they've done nothing but mistreat the character for so long now.